US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Oct. 20 for "Manufacturing a dental appliance with a surface having discrete structures" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,968, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Eagan, Minn.).

"Manufacturing a dental appliance with a surface having discrete structures" was invented by Bhaskar V. Velamakanni (Woodbury, Minn.), Kevin T. Reddy (Minneapolis), Matthew S. Stay (Bloomington, Minn.), Matthew R.D. Smith (Woodbury, Minn.), Kevin W. Gotrik (Hudson, Wis.), Mikhail L. Pekurovsky (Bloomington, Minn.), Scott J. Jones (Woodbury, Minn.), Ta-Hua Yu (Woodbury, Minn.) and Thomas J. Metzler (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making a dental appliance configured to position at least one tooth of a patient in...